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Photo: Vietnamese immigrants gather at Houston City Hall with signs for the ceremony of the sixth anniversary of the fall of South Vietnam, 1981. Courtesy of Larry Reese and the Houston Chronicle. Image available on the Internet

Photo caption: The Catonsville Nine used homemade Napalm to set draft files on fire, May 17, 1968. This article was originally published on Common Dreams on Sunday, May 6, 2018. By Andrea Germanos Fifty years after they set

Sisters and Brothers, This issue starting the New Year is dynamite. Look at the partial list of articles below. Here’s the front page which will go to print on January 5th. Order now and your papers will be mailed out the

This article originally appeared at m.wtol.com. By Lou Hebert, Mark Bickle. TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) – It’s been over 42 years since the war in Vietnam flashed across our TV screens every night. These days not so much,

With journalists from Van nghe quan doi, Quinn-Judge, far right. Photograph : Claudia Krich This article originally appeared at MekongReview.com. By Christopher Goscha Sophie Quinn-Judge landed in central Vietnam in 1973 as a

This article originally appeared at Tomgram.com By Ann Jones America has been committed to supporting the veterans of its wars since long before it had “United States of” in front of it. “It was a fearful sight to see

This article originally appeared at The New York Times. By Christopher Mele Photo: Credit Stephanie Keith/Reuters As many as 2,000 veterans planned to gather next week at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to

This article originally appeared at tomdispatch.com. By Nick Turse Photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr/cc It wasn’t to be, but had it been, Hillary Clinton would have become not only the first woman president, but the first president

This article originally appeared at TeleSurTV.net Three U.S. veterans are supporting Faisal bin Ali Jaber, whose brother-in-law and nephew were killed in 2012 in a drone strike. Three former drone operators backed a lawsuit

This article originally appeared at the NewYorker.com. On Saturday, President Obama will set out on a trip to Vietnam, for a visit that’s being billed as looking forward to the future rather than back at the bitter history of

This video originally appeared on Community Television Network. Out In Left Field Your Browser does not support html5 video Guest Doug Rawlings of Maine Veterans for Peace talks about revisionist history of the Vietnam war.

This article originally appeared at Landmines.org/vn A cluster bomb explosion in Quang Tri Province has killed one deminer and injured another, both technical staff managed by Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA).

Full Disclosure My father was a career Army officer, and World War II combat veteran. I spent my early youth on military bases in the United States, to include Japan and Germany. I absolutely loved my country, until I came back

This article originally appeared at myleftblogosphere.wordpress.com Rep. Barbara Lee has introduced a House Resolution (H.Res.695) recognizing the Vietnam anti-war movement as, “one of the largest and most prolonged efforts to

This article originally appeared at mystatesman.com By Ken Herman – American-Statesman Staff Posted: 5:27 p.m. Thursday, April 28, 2016 Funny how time can put new perspective on old jokes. I heard one of those a few times

This article originally appeared at universityworldnews.com “Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with

This article from readersupportednews.org “It ain’t that hard to get people to torture,” Ellsberg lamented, but sometimes they’ll also work together to create change for the better. MintPress News is proud to host

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(Credit: Reuters/Pascal Lauener) This post originally appeared at TomDispatch.com Nixon introduced us to permanent, extrajudicial war in Southeast Asia, and it continues today in the Middle East GREG GRANDIN, TOMDISPATCH.COM In

Health monitoring and safety measures urged as U.S. denials fly in face of mounting toxic evidence on island BY JON MITCHELL Last month, Urasoe in Okinawa pledged to conduct a survey of former base employees to ascertain the

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This Month in History: 1969

February First trial of draft resistors known as the Buffalo 9. Around 150 University of Buffalo students and faculty picket the U.S. Courthouse, chanting “Free the Nine — The Trial’s a Crime”. Defendants argue that it was necessary to resist an “immoral, illegal, racist, politically insane war on the Vietnamese people.” Charges include assaulting federal officers, as well as draft evasion. The jury is unable to reach a verdict on several of the defendants but Bruce Beyer is convicted and receives a three-year sentence. Beyer later goes to Canada and then Sweden to help organize fellow resistors and deserters.

February Fort Gordon – Pfc. Dennis Davis editor of (the antiwar newspaper) Last Harass) is given an undesirable discharge.

February 14 The first three of 27 Gls charged with mutiny at the Presidio are found guilty and sentenced to 14, 15, and 16 years at hard labor by a court martial at the San Francisco Presidio stockade (see entry for October 14, 1968). By this time, three of those charged (Blake, Mather, and Pawlowski) had escaped to Canada. On appeal, the long sentences for mutiny were voided by the Court of Military Review in June 1970, and reduced to short sentences for willful disobedience of a superior officer. Rowland, for example, was released in 1970 after a year and a half imprisonment. See The Unlawful Concert by Fred Gardner for a fuller description of the case, as well as entry for October 14, 1968.

February 20 Tacoma – the Shelter Half coffee house’s business license is revoked. See October 1968 entry.

February 22-23 NLF attack 110 targets throughout South Vietnam, including Saigon.

February 25 36 U.S. Marines are killed by NVA (PAVN or VPA) who raid their base camp near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

2016 National Book Award Finalist, Viet Thanh Nguyen:

“All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory . . . . Memory is haunted, not just by ghostly others but by the horrors we have done, seen, and condoned, or by the unspeakable things from which we have profited.”